Resiliency Patterns

Have you noticed that the largest incidents are usually caused by something very small?

A minor error starts the snowball effect that keeps building up. Suddenly, everything is down.

Here are 8 cloud design patterns to reduce the damage done by failures.

• Timeout
• Retry
• Circuit breaker
• Rate limiting
• Load shedding
• Bulkhead
• Back pressure
• Let it crash

These patterns are usually not used alone. To apply them effectively, we need to understand why we need them, how they work, and their limitations.